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From: "James A. Doemer" <>
Subject: Re: Genealogy and the Plague
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:46:07 GMT
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In News dkf0ae$rmi$1@theodyn.ncf.ca,, Brendan R. Wehrung at
, typed this:

> "James A. Doemer" () writes:
>> In News Udraf.5270$,, Robert
>> Melson at , typed this:
>>
>>> In article <87161$4369ce8b$82a1f636$>,
>>> "Lesley Robertson" <> writes:
>>>>>
>>> <snippage>
>>>
>>>> It's possible. However I'm bemused. When you look at the numbers of
>>>> people dying of leprosy or malaria now - and it's not making
>>>> headlines and the folk working on these things have trouble getting
>>>> funding, the panic over a virus that doesn't yet exist seems a
>>>> little over the top. This is the 3rd such scare that's been
>>>> generated in recent years. When something really dangerous
>>>> eventually does turn up, people are going to hear someone crying
>>>> "Wolf!". Lesley Robertson
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ever think that much of this is the product of the 24-hour news
>>> cycle and the need to fill that otherwise dead air? Watching the
>>> evening news on any of the major (US) networks and listening to the
>>> barely disguised fear, panic and ignorance in their coverage of the
>>> malady-of-the-day, one is left to wonder just a bit.
>>>
>>
>> Well, Bush has asked for $750,000,000.00 for the development of a
>> preventative and containment system for such a pandemic. One
>> wonders of Halliburton has a Pharmaceutical Subsidiary.
>>
>>
>
>
> No, but you wanna bet that they will be the only qualified company to
> build the wall between Mexico and the contiguous U.S. Come to think
> if it, that is a containment system of sorts, insn't it?
>
> Brendan

LOL! True.


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